Aloe cryptoflora

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Aloe cryptoflora
Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily : Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre : Aloes ( aloe )
Type : Aloe cryptoflora
Scientific name
Aloe cryptoflora
Reynolds

Aloe cryptoflora is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet cryptoflora is derived from the Greek word kryptos for 'hidden' and the Latin word -florus for 'bloomy' and refers to the flowers hidden by bracts.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe cryptoflora grows easily, without a stem or with a very short stem. The long, lanceolate, pointed leaves form dense rosettes that are twisted in a spiral. The deep green, slightly reddish tinged leaf blade is 20 to 25 inches long and 6.5 inches wide. The brownish red teeth on the brownish red edge of the leaf are 2 to 3 millimeters long and are 5 to 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence usually consists of a branch and reaches a length of 40 to 60 centimeters. The very dense, cylindrical, very slightly conical grapes are 14 centimeters long and 3 centimeters wide. The egg-shaped, circular, finely pointed, rounded and watch-glass-shaped, fleshy, light green bracts are 11 millimeters long and 12 millimeters wide. There are no flower stalks . The cylindrical-bell-shaped, greenish yellow flowers turn orange-yellow towards the mouth. They are 10 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 3.5 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the stylus protrude 3 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe cryptoflora is found on granite in Madagascar . The species is only known from the area where the type was found.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1965.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 57.
  2. ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 31, number 4, Kirstenbosch 1965, pp. 281-284.